To change the association for a file extension which has been grabbed by a program without my permission, it's not as easy as right-click or even shift-right-click. I have to:
Highlight the name of a file with that extension.
Shift-right click.
Open with...
Always open with this program.
Go to Control Panel.
Find out what Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has decided to call this file type.
Edit the entry. If multiple actions were associated with the file extension before, the "extras" will still be there, and may interfere with the program opening the file at all.
I would not be surprised if the procedure was entirely different in Windows 98, and maybe even different between Win98 and Win95.
The difference is that the prior story centered on eZula's TopText/HOTText (bundled with KaZaa), and this one also deals with Surf+. Surf+ is a classic trojan: described as a popup killer (useful), but also inserts ads on third-party web sites in the same way as eZula and SmartTags.
The article doesn't say that, exactly. It says that Smart Tags won't be included in one particular future release and won't be in the first retail version of XP. Smart Tags will stay in Office. The speculation about removing Smart Tags from XP and IE being good PR is the opinion of the CNET writers. The speculation about Smart Tags "returning" to IE is by an outside analyst.
So it could be a bit of misdirection. "Oh, no, it's not in the OS." But if it's still in the browser,...
In answer to your question, let me put it to you this way.
I am looking for a word processor. It must be able to understand WordPerfect, as I have several important documents in older WP formats. While I was in a store last night (not computer-only, it sells a variety of products), I looked on the shelf. There were three relevant boxed software products. The word processing component of these three packages was:
They say:
"Because of the amount of interest in the Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guides, we
are updating our Web site to better handle the demands placed on downloading the files. We
expect to make the guides available once again during the week of June 18, 2001."
Explain situation. Say, "You know, we had to take this down to comply with the law about allegations of copyright infringement." But do not admit that it was indeed a violation of copyright unless so proven in court.
One of the glaring defects of this law is that it invites every bullying corporation, every politician, everyone with an axe to grind, and everyone who hears voices in their head to censor public discussion by merely alleging violation of copyright.
If you are not knowingly guilty, do not admit guilt.
A problem with the analogy of the Ford-only wrench is that web sites, which the new tools in the latest version of IE help build, are about something else.
It might make sense to buy the Ford-only wrench if you work on cars.
It doesn't make good sense to use the Micros~1-only code.
If 86% of adults are 6 feet tall or less, would you build homes, stores, churches, libraries, and government offices with doors and ceilings that were 6 feet 1 inch in height?
Micros~1 may have the largest share of browsers in use today. But who's to say they will tomorrow? And this version of IE certainly does not have even a simple majority of web users. To turn users of all other browsers away is shooting yourself in the foot.
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Lynx could have this problem at a script-driven site.
More often, one sees either the brain-dead browser-detection scripts that won't let you in, or the endless redirects (no example URL I know offhand, but Micros~1's site often does this) which exceed the maximum number allowed.
uh1763 said, "I guess you only viewed the index-page."
You would be wrong. I looked at already categorized and archived categories. For example, this category for e-mail, which does not always let people know about programming language(s) and/or dependencies.
jkirby plaintively asks, "Can someone please explaing this statement?"
Sure thing.
Way back before the earth's crust had cooled, the two first popular web browsers were Lynx and Mosaic. Other early web browsers included the CERN line-mode browser and Cello. Lynx is character-mode, a.k.a. a text browser. Mosaic was the first popular graphical browser. Both Lynx and Mosaic came out about the same time, in 1993. The developers of Mosaic went on to Netscape, and Micros~1 Internet Explorer is based on a licensed copy of Spyglass Mosaic.
They recruited subjects by placing ads in the online versions of the Chicago Sun-Times and the St. Petersburg Times. In addition, a chief criterion for selection was that the candidate read news online 3 hours or more per week.
This could explain the higher-than-I-would-have-expected attention to banner ads. Also explains what baffled one reporter: why the Sun-Times site beat the online Chicago Tribune two-to-one.
hatless sez: "Just as there were legal moves made to ban use of the movable-type printing press early on to protect the interests of scribes" blah blah blah.
Proof?
You are pulling this out of... the air. I say this as one who has academic degrees both in printing and in church history.
I would not have responded if you had not brought it up again.
Please, can't you make your case without bogus historical claims?
Let me tell you what happens when a campus disables incoming telnet and ftp.
E-mail becomes worthless. Live off-campus? Had to go out of town? You can't get to your e-mail.
Paid subscriptions (electronic journals, books, encyclopedias, abstracts, databases) are worthless unless you are physically on campus at an approved terminal.
If you take a computer science course, you'd better count on plunking your butt in an approved on-campus computer lab for hours every night, because you cannot work from home. Can't ftp files to your account, can't debug, can't set permissions.
If your library's catalog is telnet, you're SOL.
Distance education is out of the question.
Disabling incoming telnet and ftp might sound like an easy road to security. But it is a big pain in the butt for your users. And it vitiates many reasons for getting networked in the first place. Furthermore, it does nothing to address bigger security holes like easily-guessed passwords, Windows "network neighborhoods", ports that are wide open to script kiddies, buffer overflow bugs in forms, etc.
Apparently Mr. Garfinkel thinks that the best way to ensure user privacy is for the system to not have users.
This list would be more helpful if it stated which programming language is used, and possibly dependencies as well.
Not everyone is adept in every programming language. The relative newbie could then avoid projects in an unfamiliar language. The person who can code in a few languages might suspect that the "wrong" language used is what is bogging down the project and be able to recast it in a more suitable language.
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Yes, indeed, it is the same Philips.
Philips Intellectual Property and Standards, including CD digital audio and the Red Book.
Philips Semiconductors, the ones who are in a tizzy about wireless "broadcasts" within a home.
Maybe they were embarrassed.
Did you stab a mannequin?
Um . . . .
And did you then rob that mannequin?
I am on NT4 right now.
To change the association for a file extension which has been grabbed by a program without my permission, it's not as easy as right-click or even shift-right-click. I have to:
I would not be surprised if the procedure was entirely different in Windows 98, and maybe even different between Win98 and Win95.
Uh, eZula's TopText already does hijack existing links. See screen shots and explanation at scumware.com.
Actually, this is a warmed-over version of a Slashdot discussion on July 31.
The difference is that the prior story centered on eZula's TopText/HOTText (bundled with KaZaa), and this one also deals with Surf+. Surf+ is a classic trojan: described as a popup killer (useful), but also inserts ads on third-party web sites in the same way as eZula and SmartTags.
The article on Yahoo! appears to be a report based on--turn off JavaScript before you go--this press release from Gartner.
The press release isn't much more detailed, as it is a teaser for a Gartner symposium in October.
It does mention Amazon, but for the most part is framed as a battle between AOL and Microsoft over instant messaging clients.
But they're staying in Office XP, yet not in IE6?
The article doesn't say that, exactly. It says that Smart Tags won't be included in one particular future release and won't be in the first retail version of XP. Smart Tags will stay in Office. The speculation about removing Smart Tags from XP and IE being good PR is the opinion of the CNET writers. The speculation about Smart Tags "returning" to IE is by an outside analyst.
So it could be a bit of misdirection. "Oh, no, it's not in the OS." But if it's still in the browser,...
In answer to your question, let me put it to you this way.
I am looking for a word processor. It must be able to understand WordPerfect, as I have several important documents in older WP formats. While I was in a store last night (not computer-only, it sells a variety of products), I looked on the shelf. There were three relevant boxed software products. The word processing component of these three packages was:
Nope, they let the Conclusions of Law stand too. So the only thing sent back to lower courts for reconsideration is the remedy.
They say: "Because of the amount of interest in the Windows 2000 Security Recommendation Guides, we are updating our Web site to better handle the demands placed on downloading the files. We expect to make the guides available once again during the week of June 18, 2001."
Yup.
And Some people strongly suspected that the Blair Witch Project fan sites were faked precisely to create buzz. There was an earlier story on /., even.
alleria wrote:
Pretty sure they do. There's a list of sites and words banned by the Church of Scientology's version of Cybersitter.
For more links, see the Open Directory Project's Opposing Views: Scientology section.
Explain situation. Say, "You know, we had to take this down to comply with the law about allegations of copyright infringement." But do not admit that it was indeed a violation of copyright unless so proven in court.
One of the glaring defects of this law is that it invites every bullying corporation, every politician, everyone with an axe to grind, and everyone who hears voices in their head to censor public discussion by merely alleging violation of copyright.
If you are not knowingly guilty, do not admit guilt.
It should be possible to put it in a MIDI file. If necessary, break into several files.
My sentiments exactly.
"Woohoo! A software title is now open source! High fives, everybody. Erm, but can someone tell us what it is?"
A problem with the analogy of the Ford-only wrench is that web sites, which the new tools in the latest version of IE help build, are about something else.
It might make sense to buy the Ford-only wrench if you work on cars.
It doesn't make good sense to use the Micros~1-only code.
If 86% of adults are 6 feet tall or less, would you build homes, stores, churches, libraries, and government offices with doors and ceilings that were 6 feet 1 inch in height?
Micros~1 may have the largest share of browsers in use today. But who's to say they will tomorrow? And this version of IE certainly does not have even a simple majority of web users. To turn users of all other browsers away is shooting yourself in the foot.
More often, one sees either the brain-dead browser-detection scripts that won't let you in, or the endless redirects (no example URL I know offhand, but Micros~1's site often does this) which exceed the maximum number allowed.
You would be wrong. I looked at already categorized and archived categories. For example, this category for e-mail, which does not always let people know about programming language(s) and/or dependencies.
Sure thing.
Way back before the earth's crust had cooled, the two first popular web browsers were Lynx and Mosaic. Other early web browsers included the CERN line-mode browser and Cello. Lynx is character-mode, a.k.a. a text browser. Mosaic was the first popular graphical browser. Both Lynx and Mosaic came out about the same time, in 1993. The developers of Mosaic went on to Netscape, and Micros~1 Internet Explorer is based on a licensed copy of Spyglass Mosaic.
HTH.
This could explain the higher-than-I-would-have-expected attention to banner ads. Also explains what baffled one reporter: why the Sun-Times site beat the online Chicago Tribune two-to-one.
Proof?
You are pulling this out of ... the air. I say this as one who has academic degrees both in printing and in church history.
I would not have responded if you had not brought it up again.
Please, can't you make your case without bogus historical claims?
Let me tell you what happens when a campus disables incoming telnet and ftp.
Disabling incoming telnet and ftp might sound like an easy road to security. But it is a big pain in the butt for your users. And it vitiates many reasons for getting networked in the first place. Furthermore, it does nothing to address bigger security holes like easily-guessed passwords, Windows "network neighborhoods", ports that are wide open to script kiddies, buffer overflow bugs in forms, etc.
Apparently Mr. Garfinkel thinks that the best way to ensure user privacy is for the system to not have users.
This list would be more helpful if it stated which programming language is used, and possibly dependencies as well.
Not everyone is adept in every programming language. The relative newbie could then avoid projects in an unfamiliar language. The person who can code in a few languages might suspect that the "wrong" language used is what is bogging down the project and be able to recast it in a more suitable language.
You can't be lying about the http_referer. They check.
This link to the printer-friendly version might be worth a try though. You have to say yes to one cookie.
What a pain to register for such a short article.